TY - BOOK AU - Trilling,Bernie AU - Fadel,Charles ED - Partnership for 21st Century Skills. TI - 21st century skills: learning for life in our times SN - 9780470475386 U1 - 370.73 TRI PY - 2009/// CY - San Francisco PB - Jossey-Bass KW - Educational planning KW - United States KW - Education KW - Aims and objectives KW - Educational change KW - Life skills KW - Study and teaching KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This resource introduces a framework for twenty-first century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. Twenty-first century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic -- but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom samples that help illustrate the framework and provide a view of what twenty-first century teaching and learning can achieve ER -